Adjacent to a table with $3,000 snakeskin dog collars designed by Zhoucheng Shi, the CEO of Weizhi Inc. with blond dreadlocks and a pitbull named Lady, was the FroliCat Bolt, an interactive laser toy that looks like the front half of a hair-dryer.

An autopsy is being performed today; though the young woman was found dead in her Staten Island bathroom with a hair-dryer cord around her neck, it's not clear to the reporters that her death was caused by strangulation.

Congenitally unable to do anything with a curling brush and hair-dryer which would remedy this sorry situation, I had to resign myself to only looking halfway decent on the days when I managed to bribe my younger sister to do the honours.